Australian School Uniform: Individual Schools--Tasmanian High School


Figure 1.-- Here we have a high school class in Tasmania, Australia, taken in 1911. The school is all boys. Single gender secondary schools were standard at the time. The High School boys seem to the younger boys at the school. Boys in Australia following the British system began secondary school at about age 12. The boys here look like the first or second form at the school.

Here we have a high school class in Tasmania, Australia, taken in 1911. The school is all boys. Single gender secondary schools were standard at the time. The High School boys seem to the younger boys at the school. Boys in Australia following the British system began secondary school at about age 12. The boys here look like the first or second form at the school. Most of the boys seem to be wearing suits with Eton collars. Some of the suits have waistcoasts, some have Norfolk styling, and one boy even wears just a sweater (see middle of the front row of standing boys). Many of the boys wear peaked caps, the standard headwear for British school boys at the time and thus wideky worn in the Dominions as well. One in the back wears a flat cap. All the boys we can see wear knee pants with long black stockings. This probably includes even the boys whose legs we can't see, because it was customary for high school boys in 1911 to wear knee pants up to the ages of 16 and 17 and, in some conservative areas, throughout the high school years. Only the younger boys have bear knees. Note the boys sitting cross-legged in the front row, wearing knee socks, and even here, two of the boys wear long stockings. At least four of the masters are visible--one with a bowler hat at the left and another with a black beard and mustache at the right. The figure in the third row (extreme right) with his hand on his hips might be a master, but he could also be one of the older boys, about age 18. Two boys, fourth and fifth from the left in the second row, seem to be wearing knickers with black stockings. Knee pants, however, are obviously dominant.










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